government data breach disclosed earlier this year was tied to a bug in enterprise software maker Atlassian's Confluence suite of collaboration tools, an IT contractor said on Tuesday. CGI Federal, an IT contractor and unit of CGI Inc, said in a statement that it...
By the way, it’s still not clear who orchestrated the hack on the OPM. One website that discussed “12 Things You Should Know About the OPM Breach” didn’t even address the question. (Still, it’s been assumed that a foreign government, perhaps China, was behind the hack.) ...
The breach was already one of the worst on record due to its scale and the sensitive nature of the material taken. Those people exposed include 19.7 million who applied for clearances, such as current, former and prospective employees and contractors, plus 1.8 million non-applicants such as spo...
US: More than 21 million affected by government data breachBy JACK GILLUMJOSH LEDERMAN
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US gov't assesses big data breach of Fed personal: Reports The federal government is notifying millions of employees as it works to assess the impact of a massive data breach involving the agency that handles security clearances and employee records. ...
Also:Were you caught up in the latest data breach? Here's how to find out The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) funds another agency that buys geolocation metadata collected from smartphones. The DIA then acquires the location data and processes whether the data is US-based location data o...
Common sense tells us that data breaches are underreported in the United States. The 1,802 reported here are a minimum estimate. The trends related to publicly reported data breaches in 2022 reinforce the conclusion that the data breach environment is worse than we know and can be proven with...
Loans offered by the US government to help small businesses impacted 8000 of them from a data breach. Symantec estimates that 4800 websites are compromised every month from clickjacking. Verizon estimates that 71% of data breaches are financially motivated. In 2019, 36% of data breaches were fro...
and disclosure of the identities of the covert CIA agents. But they said the breach — which exploited a "zero day" vulnerability, meaning one that was previously unknown — could be the biggest cyberattack in U.S. history, potentially affecting every agency of the U.S. government. ...